mrmacca
Experienced Member
I'm gonna go for it, and program this chip....... More later.
If you count all models I think you'd be surprised; I know of about 25 just among three or four local friends and I wouldn't be surprised if there were a hundred or more just in the greater Toronto area. After all, any collection of significant vintage computers has to include at least one PET.
Bo Zimmer, Steve Gray, Jim Brain and Anders alone probably have 450 units among them ;-)
Don't forget that many thousands were put into schools, at least in Canada and the US.
Mind you, considering the current theme of this thread maybe instead of "working" we should say "working the last time they were turned on" ;-)
Tsk, tsk... you shoulda read my post more carefully ;-)Hi Steve, Hi Anders.
I'm really (really) pleased with the repair. Excellent Diagnosis then. Thanks both.
I'm sure this is a later PET and pretty sure it was lower case before. Anders, your right I loaded up the characters-2.901447-8.bin instead of the characters-2.901447-10.bin
I've covered the eproms as someone has advised me here. What do you think guys? Top Job?
I wouldn't be too concerned about covering the window but it's a good place to label it....download the appropriate image (901447-10)...
Congrats on a succesful repair. I just love to see an old Pet spring back to life.
I had an off-the-wall thought when I was reading this thread. We could have an event - a "PET ALIVE" day where on a nominated day (April Fools?), interested PET owner of this forum dragged out any PETs stored more than 3 months and switched them on! The carnage could then be reported baclk.
Now that would be fun! On the other hand maybe it would just be too depressing
Whadyaya reckon?
Tez
So how long do people think that eprom will last then? It could have been programmed more times than I've had hot dinners
It could be a fun event, especially if enough people participate and put up pictures of their alive (or now verfied deceased) PETS. The fear I have is there will be so many dead ones, Carlsson's going to run out of spares, Steve will run out of sleep, Dave_m will run out of ideas and Mike will just run, seeing the number of people who now need Pet therapy through this forum.
Tez
Before our North American friends tell you the 8250LP is a very rare floppy drive...